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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: That poses the question as to how we view our health system. That is especially the case, give the highest ever expenditure announced in the budget last week. There is also the question as to why the accident and emergency department is our first port of call. Where is our primary care system? Why is that not functioning to the level and capacity needed to have people perceive it to be...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I will explain. It is very simple-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The fiction section of the library is the one that we see the-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a bit like the "Buy and Sell"-style magazine that Fianna Fáil produce. Here is our budget-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----but how are we going to pay for this? I remind Members opposite, many of whom were public representatives from 2007 to 2010, what happened then. I will leave things at that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: What we need-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: There are no points of information in reply to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Of course it is not genuine.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: There are no points of order during the reply to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not hear it. Will Senator Gallagher repeat that please?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: In the immortal words of a former colleague and friend, Denis Cregan, who served in this House-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----it is a long game, played slow. Senator Gallagher should remember that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Senator Murnane O'Connor that the architect of the present dysfunctional health system-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: -----is her party leader, the former Minister of Health, Deputy Micheál Martin. Until her party-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Until Senator Murnane O'Connor's party-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Murnane O'Connor's party leader founded the HSE and then ran out of office to leave Mary Harney embedded there for almost a decade.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: That is Fianna Fáil's legacy and the Senators cannot hide it.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Senators Murnane O'Connor and Gallagher of the Garda Vote. There is an increase of €122 million to pay for pay, recruitment costs and the recruitment of 700 new gardaí. Fianna Fáil closed the college.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: There are new resources for a range of issues. I will be happy to have a debate on justice with the Members opposite any time they wish. I admit to a lack of knowledge about Senator Murnane O'Connor's question about vetting. She either wanted vetting or she did not. I am not quite sure. We can never-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: Let me finish.